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🇺🇸🇨🇳🥂 THE MOMENT THAT SHOOK THE U.S.: TRUMP RAISES HIS GLASS AND DRINKS IN HONOR OF XI JINPING

🍾 American media couldn't believe what cameras captured. During the state banquet hosted by Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Donald Trump raised his glass, looked at his host, and took a sip of what appeared to be champagne. For the rest of the world it might be a routine gesture, but for Americans it was a truly historic scene.

💔 The reason runs deep: Trump's older brother Fred Trump Jr. died at 42 after years of battling alcoholism. That family tragedy marked the president from a young age and turned him into a self-declared teetotaler throughout his life. "I don't drink, I've never drunk", he has repeated on countless occasions.

🎬 The sip in Beijing went viral within minutes. There is still no official clarification about what was actually in his glass, but the moment was enough to reopen the debate: did Trump break one of his most deeply held personal rules to honor the Chinese leader? Diplomacy, after all, is also measured in gestures.

🍴 The dinner included lobster in tomato soup, crispy beef ribs, Peking duck, and a dessert with a trumpet-shaped pastry. But the night was stolen by a small sip that, in a country where the president had never touched alcohol, said more than a thousand speeches.

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